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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Thrillho:
Without being ridiculous, not using condoms can harm other people...
Barmymoo:
Well yes, except that I am fairly frequently tested and know I don't have anything, and am on the Pill. I know I don't pose a risk to others, and I don't have sex with people I don't trust to tell me truthfully whether they pose a risk to me. But it is unquestionably risky behaviour. As is crossing the road, eating food prepared by someone else, leaving the house...
Papersatan:
I don't think gloves are generally used in medical settings for the safety of the patient, but rather to reduce the medical practices liability.
When my father was in the hospital a couple years ago with an open seeping wound, with an active infection which had gone septic and left him in a coma fighting for his life (he made it), the nurses put gloves on when they entered the room, and then took them off when they left, they never changed them in the room. I once watched a nurse pick up a paper off the floor, pick up the dressing and check his wound, touch the monitors, take a vile of blood and then adjust his breathing tube, all without changing gloves. I was appalled. I feel like the practice of wearing gloves for all contact made her not think twice about what she was touching in what order, because she was safe through it all, in her mind her hands were 'clean' the whole time.
Barmymoo:
That's definitely not how we practice, possibly partly because we don't have the same level of medical lawsuits as in the USA. We're told to wash our hands before and after every contact with the person we're caring for, their environment, any body fluid, any part of ourselves (like face or hair) and on entering a room. There are posters everywhere reminding us of the importance of Hand Hygiene, and gloves are single-use.
Grognard:
I worked 4 years for the American Red Cross Blood Services doing blood drives.
Gloves + Gloves + More Gloves + all the time.
Load the Hemorrhoid (Blood Drive Bus) ... wear leather gloves.
work inside the Hemorrhoid = PPE gloves
do health histories = PPE, changed between donors
touch a donor in ANY way = PPE gloves
touch a donation bag = PPE gloves
processing the donation and sample tubes = head to toe PPE (face shield, apron, sleeves and gloves)
clean the Hemorrhoid = PPE gloves
unload packaged and processed donations and samples = PPE gloves
unload the Hemorrhoid = leather gloves.
on average, I used half a box of PPE gloves PER blood drive.
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